and I will be guilty of getting a new cheap set as well. Me... who collects. I have a few tv's along with my daily watchers. I have always had an older set in my bedroom. My last "good" old one was the CTC-31 that I sold to Doug. Anyway, every older one I have tried to use since has been breaking lately and having so many "glitchy" problems that I have thought "Screw it, I'm getting a NEW one" I saw a store by me has a 19" Toshiba with a built in DVD player for $179. I can't believe how cheap the new ones have become. The last time I sold NEW sets was in the early 80's. A Zenith console ran $799, $899 with remote, and I think the 19" "portables" ran $349, $449 with remote. It used to be that remote always added $100.00 to the set. We'd usually give the customer $100.00 on a trade in and sold the old tube consoles for between $150.00 & 175.00 . Boy are those days long gone. Our Goodwill still tries to get top dollar for the tv's tho. I saw a 25" Panasonic Prism set, a tad banged up AND missing the remote and they still wanted $49.00. Almost got it, but it was a tad large for me to "haul around" if it didn't work. They have NO rabbit-ears to check the set, and our Goodwill has NO returns on electronic items. The set did have S-Video and all the goodies. I still think I'll get that Toshiba tho, or maybe a FINE Apex.... LOL
